every moment that passes has a message but we tend to distort the guide of the moment to the tune of our thinking that it becomes irrelevant..we misinterpret individuality then but we seldom realize..but the message remains the same..we need to go beyond..alas! we seldom go..

The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Tuesday, 24 December 2013

Symbolically shambolic or shambolically
symbolic! - “Biggest issue is corruption, it is an unacceptable burden on
our people. We must fight corruption”

Rahul Gandhi, was, again, delivering a speech remixing
the verbal elements of his speechmaking which we have become so familiar with.
He was discussing the problems of India with corporate leaders. And
he again spoke on corruption, in his usual style, talking big, when the acts of
the many of the Congress leaders directly defy his words. In fact, if we go by
the need to set the precedent, even his family needs to come clean on
corruption allegations on Robert Vadra, his brother-in-law.

Anyway, that is the regular, usual stuff,
keeps on happening, and keeps on defying Rahul’s words.

This time, the push for writing this came from
a coincidental turn of events involving Rahul Gandhi, Congress, a speech on corruption
and an act of corruption cover-up.

On December 20, the Adarsh Housing Society scam
report was tabled in the Maharashtra assembly
and summarily rejected by the state government. The chief minister of Maharashtra, Prithviraj Chavan, considered relatively
clean on corruption, didn’t give any reason.

The report was prepared by a two-member
commission (Adarsh Commission) headed by a retired Justice of the Bombay High
Court, JA Patil, to look into the allegations of corruption and irregularities
in the construction of Adarsh Housing Cooperative Society in Mumbai.

The report indicted four farmer Maharashtra
chief ministers and Congress politicians including Sushilkumar Shinde, the Union
Home Minister now, and Ashok Chavan and Vilasrao Deshmukh, former chief
ministers of Maharashtra. With many
bureaucrats, the report also indicted two influential NCP politicians who are
ministers in the Maharashtra cabinet.

This happened on December 20, Friday.

On December 21, Saturday, Rahul addressed the
corporate leaders at FICCI Annual General Meeting, talking big again on
corruption.

How hollow, how disconnected such statements
sound when the reality defies them upfront; when the reality and such
statements by Rahul Gandhi become extremes to bridge the gap?

It is as counterfeit as Congress rushing to
take credit of passing the Lokpal Bill even if the Congress is the main culprit
to let the Bill linger for almost 45 years!

“Corruption is bleeding our people dry. It is
an unacceptable burden on the people of our nation. We must fight corruption
with all our strength and determination” - how could Rahul speak so, on December 21,
addressing the FICCI AGM - just a day after his party’s government and chief
minister rejected an impartial judicial commission report on a scam that shook
the nation and cost a chief minister his chair?

It was really an opportunity missed and it
also tells Rahul and Congress didn’t learn anything from the recent poll
humiliations in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan
and Chhattisgarh and from AAP’s unprecedented victory in Delhi. On December 8 evening, Rahul Gandhi
had conceded the defeat saying his party needed to learn from AAP. Corruption
and anti-establishment demands anti- the ‘present system of governance’ were
the major poll planks of AAP, or the Aam Aadmi Party.

Had it been a serious thought on December 8
evening when the election results of four states were announced, we would not
have seen happening what happened on December 20 in Maharashtra.

The time is running out. Talking big and
talking radical is not going to help. Such a veil cannot be maintained for long
and the prevailing political circumstances make it imperative for Rahul and
Congress to change when the electorate is ready for political experiments like
AAP. Yes, AAP is not beyond valid reasons of doubt, but it is certainly a point
to begin.

Rahul and Congress need to act now, and given
the mess, the political abyss, they are in, they need to act radically.

Adarsh Commission report could have been an
opportunity to begin but it has been missed. A positive approach on the Adarsh
Commission enquiry report, indicting big names, would certainly be a fitting,
radical anti-corruption step taken.

The ‘change in politics’ that Rahul Gandhi has
been talking about, even more repeatedly after his elevation as the Congress
Vice-president, needs ‘politics of change’ that is much bigger than saving a
Sushilkumar Shinde.

Mr. Gandhi you must, (if not react on), read
and think over what Justice Patil said on rejection of his report: “We have
a clear idea in our mind of what happened (referring to the Adarsh scam). Based
on that we submitted our report after recording the evidence of several
witnesses and perusing relevant documents. The findings were not palatable to
the government and hence it must have been rejected.”

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